brand new brandless 2Gb Mp3 player is faulty?

when i plug it into the port a message comes up saying:

"the USB device attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it"

i have win. vista installed and when i check the driver details of the device i find this which is suspicious:

DRIVER STRONG NODE NAME:
usb.inf:Generic.Section.NTx86:BADDEVICE.Dev:6.0.6000.16386:usbunknown

COMPATIBLE IDS:
USBUNKNOWN

BUS TYPE GUIDE:
{9d7debbc-c85d-11d1-9eb4-006008c3a19a}

maybe if i could change some of the values somehow like reprogram it???
plis help soon